Who said getting your A600/A1200 online via a PCMCIA WiFi card has to be expensive or complicated? I have found a winning combination.

Two biggest problems with doing Amiga WiFi on the cheap:

1: Not sure what PCMCIA card to buy
2: AmiTCP is hard to configure

OK I have found a seller of new 802.11b 5v Orinoco PCMCIA cards. They have tons, and even though I had one already, at the price they are charging, I bought another. It arrived next day. See link to the eBay listing here or if you are reading this months from when I posted it, their eBay shop here. The description of the card you need is "FAST WIRELESS WIFI 802.11B LAPTOP/NOTEBOOK PCMCIA CARD "

So that's problem number 1 solved, now problem 2.

First of all download and install the prism2 driver here.

Then download AmiTCP here. To install and configure the program, use this excellent guide!

I wanted to email the guys who wrote this guide, but couldn't find email addresses for them. If anyone knows the authors of this document, please pass on my appreciation.

Points to note:
1: When the guide mentions cnet.device, obviously look for/type prism2.device.

2: These older cards don't have WPA/WPA2 encryption so you need to bear that in mind when getting it to work with your router/access point - you need to use WEP (for added protection when using WEP, turn on MAC address filtering).

Using this solution, I am using IRC and Email on my 2MB/68000 Amiga 600! Its incredible - even after loading workbench, the TCP/IP stack, screensaver, Grapevine IRC client, Iris Email client I STILL have about 500k RAM remaining!

I am going to put my second WiFi card to good use in an 68030 powered A1200 machine I am putting together this week

I hope this post helps someone on a budget to get their A600/A1200 online. If you want an all-in-one software/hardware solution with a more automatic installation method and lots of networking programs, Amigakit have a solution here.

Last edited by A1200 on 18-Sep-2014 at 03:37 PM.
Last edited by A1200 on 30-May-2008 at 02:16 AM.

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Amiga A1200, 3.1 ROMs, Blizzard 1230 MKIV 64MB & FPU, 4GB DoM SSD, Workbench 3.1